【Academic Forum】Ruthenium Catalysts toward green and sustainable chemistry : Activation of alkynes, alkenes and C-H bonds

Topic: Ruthenium Catalysts Toward Green and Sustainable Chemistry :
Activation of Alkynes, Alkenes and C-H Bonds

Lecturer: Pierre Dixneuf, academician of the Institut Universitaire de France; professor of University of Rennes, France

Host: Deng Guojun, professor and doctoral supervisor of Xiangtan University; dean of College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University

Time: 10 AM on September 26^th, 2017

Venue: lecture room of the Shaw Building

 

Pierre Dixneuf is now an academician of the Institut Universitaire de France, professor at University of Rennes, and member of the editorial boards of several well-known international chemical journals. Prof. Dixneuf’s research areas include metal organic chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. He has reaped fruitful results in these fields.

So far, he has published more than 400 research papers, 11 books, and, three monographs. He also has six international patents, and his work has been acknowledged with several awards including: A.v Humboldt (1990); the French Académie des sciences awards (1994); Grignard-Wittig (2001); Sacconi medal (2006); and, Grand prix IFP of Académie des Sciences (2006).

Prof. Dixneuf embarked on exchanges and cooperation with China more than 20 years ago. He has been dedicated to many bilateral academic conferences with Chinese chemists, academic exchanges with Chinese universities and research institutes, as well as the cultivation of Chinese postgraduate students in France.

 

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